In the run-up to the holiday season I am working my way through lots of exciting new stock, and many of the pieces I am adding are in the...

It is a wonderful autumnal day today - a bit grey, but the trees are starting to turn colour and the garden is a lovely mess of leaves,...

Happy Autumn! (or, if you are down under, happy Spring!) I hope everyone has had a beautiful summer in spite of the weather and the many...

In my monthly column in Homes & Antiques, the last two months I wrote about the emerging porcelain factories in Chelsea and Bow (both in...

When we think about times past, we often think people didn't have much colour - perhaps because pictures are black and white, and many...

It is summer here and we are finally having some freedom again, so I am enjoying the rare opportunity to go places. I have been visiting...

When in the late 18th and early 19th Century excavations in Southern Italy, Greece and Turkey started to reveal the long forgotten...

Last month I wrote in Homes & Antiques about the Chelsea factory, and this month I am moving across London to Bow, its sister factory...

You had to go without a blog post last week as I was on holiday in Cornwall... but while there I came across something interesting. You...

This last month has been full of great sporting tournaments: the European football title, the Wimbledon tennis tournament, and of course...